UN refugee agency says hundreds feared dead in Mediterranean

The United Nations refugee agency said Wednesday it feared a “massive loss of life” from the capsizing of a boat carrying migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

The UNHCR said in a statement that it had interviewed “survivors of what could be one of the worst tragedies involving refugees and migrants in the last 12 months,” and that “if confirmed, as many as 500 people may have lost their lives when a large ship went down in the Mediterranean Sea at an unknown location between Libya and Italy.”

According to the statement, rescued migrants from Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt had described “seeing a large shipwreck that took place in the Mediterranean Sea claiming the lives of approximately 500 people.”

Reports of the sinking first came on Monday. According to the UNHCR statement, the 41 people rescued were part of about 200 people sailing on smaller ship when the smugglers in charge attempted to transfer them to a larger, overcrowded ship, which capsized before the migrants got on board. The survivors drifted at sea for up to three days before being rescued. They are currently being temporarily housed in Kalamata at a local stadium.

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